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Has anybody here used Amazona Aurora serverless? Is it a viable alternative for big RDS instances?

• nh_99 7y ago
  A company that I work for was in the beta of serverless for MySQL, and we currently use it for both dev and production workloads. We're a startup, so it definitely simplifies devops for us, but personally I think you're better off just running a large RDS instance. The main problem with it that we have run into is that if there are active transactions in the database, it can't find a "scale point". So when our application gets hit with thousands of users at a time and they are all generating database transactions, it can't scale up. It's definitely been good for us in development though, and I would highly recommend it for that.
  • davidjnelson 7y ago
    They do allow you to drop connections with forced scale points if that's a tradeoff your application can make https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/04/amazon_aurora_serverless_now_supports_a_minimum_capacity_of_1_unit_and_a_new_scaling_option/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/04/amazon_au...
• jjeaff 7y ago
  From a cost perspective, when I last checked, it was quite a bit more expensive to go serverless unless you have very intermittent demand or have very spikey and unpredictable traffic.